• The same mistake was made in two different ways – in print and online – when writing about the dangers to bees of the neonicotinoid pesticide imidacloprid. In both stories we suggested that honeybees are not attracted to such crops as "corn and oil seed rape". Apiculturalists were quick to point out that the reverse is true (Pesticide 'unacceptable danger to honeybees', 17 January, page 18).

• An interview with the actor Laura Linney referred to her latest film role as Daisy, the real-life distant cousin of Franklin D Roosevelt, and quoted her as saying that Daisy used to store the knick-knacks FDR brought back from around the world in a latrine. Not quite. That was a mishearing on the part of the interviewer. Daisy stored the knick-knacks in a vitrine – a glass display case ('America's very puritanical', 14 January, page 6, G2).